Michael Arditti

The schoolgirl crush that never went away: Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain reviewed

A delicate, funny and generous-hearted novel about thwarted love and its aftermath in a 1960s Middle England

Tony Blackburn and friends in Carnaby Street in 1967 – the era in which Tremain’s new novel is set. [Alamy]

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